1. Aggrey Siryoyi Awori was a Ugandan economist, politician and Olympic hurdler, who served as Minister for Information and Communications Technology in the Cabinet of Uganda from 16 February 2009 to 27 May 2011.
19 Facts About Aggrey Awori
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Aggrey Awori's parents were Canon Jeremiah Musungu Awori, a pioneer African priest of the Anglican Church in East Africa and Mrs Mariamu Odongo Awori, a nurse and community teacher.
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Aggrey Awori owned an urban home in Busia Municipality and a country home in neighboring Bugiri District.
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Aggrey Awori attended Nabumali High School in Mbale District and King's College Budo, in Wakiso District, both in Uganda.
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Aggrey Awori was the Canada House Prefect at King's College Budo.
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Aggrey Awori ran on the victorious mile relay team that tied the heptagonal record.
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Aggrey Awori represented Uganda in the 110 metres hurdles at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics, but failed to win any medals.
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Aggrey Awori has a Master of Arts in economics from Syracuse University in the US.
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In 1967, Aggrey Awori was appointed the first local director of Uganda Television.
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In 1971 Aggrey Awori was jailed for two months after Idi Amin's coup, because during Amin's first coup attempt he didn't broadcast a speech Amin gave, lying to him by saying that they were live on air.
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Aggrey Awori went into political exile in Kenya, where he taught political journalism at the University of Nairobi until 1976 and then traveled around Africa visiting Tanzania, Liberia and Senegal and returning to Nairobi in 1979.
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Aggrey Awori ran for a seat in the National Assembly of Uganda, but lost.
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Aggrey Awori then became Ambassador to the United States, until being transferred by Tito Okello Lutwa in 1985.
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Aggrey Awori served as Uganda's Ambassador to Belgium from 1985 until 1987, when he was dropped by Yoweri Museveni.
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Aggrey Awori stated that his reason for doing so was mainly anger at Museveni's National Resistance Army, which had confiscated his property.
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In 1993, Aggrey Awori met with Museveni in New York and then was elected to the Constituent Assembly to drawing up the country's new constitution and as a member of parliament.
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Aggrey Awori represented Samia-Bugwe North, Busia District in the Ugandan Parliament from 2001 until 2006.
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Aggrey Awori was an outspoken opposition member of parliament for the Uganda People's Congress political party.
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Aggrey Awori was married to Thelma Awori, who worked as Director for Africa at the United Nations Development Programme.